I am surprised that Microsoft didn't rejigger IE to just block Google altogether about the time Bing was being first promoted. By the time the lawyers got done beating each other to a bloody pulp - even if Google managed a legal victory - there would be millions of users who would have used Bing as the only alternative because they didn't know about the existence of any other browsers than the IE on their Windows desktop.
You don't work for a corporation where safety is first. You do not understand what process safety is. No one was pushing the boundaries of space by pushing O rings beyond their safety limits. This was a preventable accident. Your specious arguments don't prove otherwise.
I have worked for corporations where safety was first. Guess what - they still had accidents. Not as many as corporations which didn't give a shit, but nonzero nevertheless. Murphy was right. A system will eventually find all of its points of failure. Process safety is designing systems to minimize the number of those points.
If there were no porn, we would still be using Beta. The kids would be rewatching that tape of The Last Unicorn that you bought for $120 over and over and over.
It is just like a few quantum bits with a few rooms full of machinery that operates these bits and is both slow and has way to small a number of bits to really be useful.
I don't know Jack - sorry, I don't know Werner - about quantum computing, but you did just describe the state of regular computing circa 1946 or thereabouts.
Human physiology is an extremely complex system. A new drug must hit a tiny target in a sea of very similar targets. If the author has a better system to understand the world than the scientific method, let him propose it.
It's funny you say that, have you ever actually ben in an American Business school? I have, and we were required to take several ethics courses as well as weighing the ethical impacts of any decisions we made in case studies.
Just curious - did the ethics courses try to teach you how to differentiate between one decision that makes a lot of money from one that makes slightly more money or did they have any lessons on how to decide between A, which breaks some laws and involves some lies but makes the company a nice profit, and B, which obeys the law but costs the company huge losses and your job.
Of course they do. All (new) material is copyrighted. Even this post.
Yup and it belongs to Slashdot now. Read the fine print.
No, he cut and pasted that comment from my new book, "Useful Comments for Online Forums", which is registered with the US Copyright Office. Unless Slashdot deletes this and all the other comments stolen from my book, this site will be shut down forthwith.
...Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives.
Somewhere a lawyer smiled in his sleep and kicked his feet like a puppy after a bunny rabbit.
The MBA lobotomy is a very precise operation, they only remove the parts of the brain that remember to pay taxes and how to truthfully report corp. earnings.
You forgot empathy.
If you had measurable empathy in the first place, they wouldn't have let you in.
Just abolish public domain altogether and auction off all the world's works to the highest or most connected bidder. I hear the Bible would bring a pretty penny.
I know that a big translucent touch sensitive screen floating in the room is visually stunning, but has anyone thought of the consequences of having to use one for any long period? Waving your arms around and having your arm elevated for longer than a few seconds is hard on the shoulders.
Apple is "exciting" people about "technology" the same way Louis Vuitton is "exciting" people about, you know, apparel design and textile technology. Both companies sell an image and the fashion accessories to build it, and most people buy their products exactly as a fashion accessory.
I am periodically reminded why headhunters don't lurk on Slashdot to find the next generation of innovating CEOs.
You can get people to pay more for a real cure for cancer, than they ever would for a fake one.
But yes, it does feel kind of scammy. Still, independent verification will determine whether it is or is not.
"People" can't by themselves distinguish between real cures and fake cures. That's why we have the FDA and suchlike. Real cures are patented to protect the inventor and then papers detailing the process are published. Fake cures and fake fusion technology are never patented and the details are never published.
Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently show evidence of anomalous heat
There are plenty of ways "anomalous" heat can be generated during chemical/mechanical processes without jumping right to the conclusion that it must be two nuclei fusing - the same way that seeing something unknown in the sky does not automatically mean it came from some other planet.
Microsoft isn't patent troll. They do actual research and spend billions a year on Microsoft Research. No one else in the industry has such an good R&D department. Patent trolls don't do research, they just bully companies. Microsoft is within all their rights to ask for payments on their patents, because they actually do lots of research.
Microsoft must have the most inefficient R&D process in history if they are such a good department doing such a lot of work yet none of it seems to make much of a difference in the end products.
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
No, no they are not. All the USAF drones are controlled from Nevada.
The drone program would pay for itself if they installed the control rooms in Circus Circus and let kids fly them for quarters. Kill a terrorist, get a plush stuffed animal!
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Ph.D. in New Testament
This is both the funniest and saddest thing I've seen on the web in a while.
This "story" was debunked on other sites, including reddit, hours ago. What the hell, Slashdot?
I am surprised that Microsoft didn't rejigger IE to just block Google altogether about the time Bing was being first promoted. By the time the lawyers got done beating each other to a bloody pulp - even if Google managed a legal victory - there would be millions of users who would have used Bing as the only alternative because they didn't know about the existence of any other browsers than the IE on their Windows desktop.
You don't work for a corporation where safety is first. You do not understand what process safety is. No one was pushing the boundaries of space by pushing O rings beyond their safety limits. This was a preventable accident. Your specious arguments don't prove otherwise.
I have worked for corporations where safety was first. Guess what - they still had accidents. Not as many as corporations which didn't give a shit, but nonzero nevertheless. Murphy was right. A system will eventually find all of its points of failure. Process safety is designing systems to minimize the number of those points.
If there were no porn, we would still be using Beta. The kids would be rewatching that tape of The Last Unicorn that you bought for $120 over and over and over.
If the data is in the Koran, then the University backup is not necessary. If there is data not in the Koran, then that data can be deleted.
It is just like a few quantum bits with a few rooms full of machinery that operates these bits and is both slow and has way to small a number of bits to really be useful.
I don't know Jack - sorry, I don't know Werner - about quantum computing, but you did just describe the state of regular computing circa 1946 or thereabouts.
I'm going to look around right now for people to screw and things to steal.
Human physiology is an extremely complex system. A new drug must hit a tiny target in a sea of very similar targets. If the author has a better system to understand the world than the scientific method, let him propose it.
What does it have to do with the price of butter?
Hey, when Brando says to get the buttah, you don't quibble over the price of the stick.
Without the lash of the Communist menace, Congress would not have spend trillions to shoot people into space.
How about Congress hires some experts to advise them in scientific matters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
Thanks, Newt. You want to go to the frigging moon but won't spend 21 million to make sure Congress isn't farting into the scientific wind.
It's funny you say that, have you ever actually ben in an American Business school? I have, and we were required to take several ethics courses as well as weighing the ethical impacts of any decisions we made in case studies.
Just curious - did the ethics courses try to teach you how to differentiate between one decision that makes a lot of money from one that makes slightly more money or did they have any lessons on how to decide between A, which breaks some laws and involves some lies but makes the company a nice profit, and B, which obeys the law but costs the company huge losses and your job.
But Al Gore lives in a big house and lies about inventing the Internet, so he's a big weenee and we don't have to listen to him lalalalalalalalalala
Of course they do. All (new) material is copyrighted. Even this post.
Yup and it belongs to Slashdot now. Read the fine print.
No, he cut and pasted that comment from my new book, "Useful Comments for Online Forums", which is registered with the US Copyright Office. Unless Slashdot deletes this and all the other comments stolen from my book, this site will be shut down forthwith.
...Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Western Digital are profiting from Pirating because people store illegally acquired content on their hard drives.
Somewhere a lawyer smiled in his sleep and kicked his feet like a puppy after a bunny rabbit.
The MBA lobotomy is a very precise operation, they only remove the parts of the brain that remember to pay taxes and how to truthfully report corp. earnings.
You forgot empathy.
If you had measurable empathy in the first place, they wouldn't have let you in.
Just abolish public domain altogether and auction off all the world's works to the highest or most connected bidder. I hear the Bible would bring a pretty penny.
I know that a big translucent touch sensitive screen floating in the room is visually stunning, but has anyone thought of the consequences of having to use one for any long period? Waving your arms around and having your arm elevated for longer than a few seconds is hard on the shoulders.
Apple is "exciting" people about "technology" the same way Louis Vuitton is "exciting" people about, you know, apparel design and textile technology. Both companies sell an image and the fashion accessories to build it, and most people buy their products exactly as a fashion accessory.
I am periodically reminded why headhunters don't lurk on Slashdot to find the next generation of innovating CEOs.
You can get people to pay more for a real cure for cancer, than they ever would for a fake one.
But yes, it does feel kind of scammy. Still, independent verification will determine whether it is or is not.
"People" can't by themselves distinguish between real cures and fake cures. That's why we have the FDA and suchlike. Real cures are patented to protect the inventor and then papers detailing the process are published. Fake cures and fake fusion technology are never patented and the details are never published.
Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently show evidence of anomalous heat
There are plenty of ways "anomalous" heat can be generated during chemical/mechanical processes without jumping right to the conclusion that it must be two nuclei fusing - the same way that seeing something unknown in the sky does not automatically mean it came from some other planet.
Microsoft isn't patent troll. They do actual research and spend billions a year on Microsoft Research. No one else in the industry has such an good R&D department. Patent trolls don't do research, they just bully companies. Microsoft is within all their rights to ask for payments on their patents, because they actually do lots of research.
Microsoft must have the most inefficient R&D process in history if they are such a good department doing such a lot of work yet none of it seems to make much of a difference in the end products.
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
No, no they are not. All the USAF drones are controlled from Nevada.
The drone program would pay for itself if they installed the control rooms in Circus Circus and let kids fly them for quarters. Kill a terrorist, get a plush stuffed animal!